Content Provider: Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in K-12 Education
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A Friend of Their Minds: Capitalizing on the Oral Tradition of My African American Students
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Abstract: Yvonne Divans Hutchinson is a National Board certified teacher who has focused for many years on developing strategies to engage all her students in substantive discussions of literary texts and the issues those texts raise for their own lives. In this approach, she builds on the oral traditions of her ... More »
Creating a Community of Learners: Lessons from a High School Journalism Program
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Abstract: This site provides an example and illustration of a learning community in a high school journalism class. The site is drawn from the teacher's reflections as well as a researcher's studies in this classroom. The site describes the key components of learning communities, their manifestation in this classroom, ... More »
Creating space for diverse perspectives and student learning
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Abstract: This website is an 'illustrated case' of the teaching of a high school English class on the literature of social vision and social change. The case examines the use of multicultural materials in a standard English class and the instructors' efforts to refine the course as the year progressed. The website ... More »
Culturally Engaged Instruction (CEI): Putting theory into practice
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Abstract: As an English teacher at a rural all-Black high school in the Mississippi Delta, Renee Moore enjoyed a genuine fellowship with her students, many of whom she worked with outside of school in church and community activities. Lessons in literature and writing went reasonably well (for a beginning teacher), ... More »
Heterogeneous Grouping and High Standards in an Untracked Advanced English Class
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Abstract: This website describes Joan Cone's teaching journey to address challenges of diversity, inequity, and achievement in her High School English classroom. At El Cerrito High School, Cone has been an integral part of an ongoing struggle to detrack the English curriculum. Over the past few years, her thinking ... More »
Human Agency, Social Action and Classroom Practices: What happens when teachers move over to allow students to pave their own path towards enacting change?
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Abstract: Vanessa Brown's work focuses on the students and classroom practices of her ninth grade English/Language Arts classes. It grew out of the tensions that arose when her beliefs about the juxtaposition of social action and classroom practices collided with the realities of socio-economic status, personal ... More »
Learning from our conversations in English: Using video in the bilingual classroom as a tool for reflection on English language learning and teaching
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Abstract: Since beginning her teaching career, Sarah Capitelli has been concerned with how to best meet the needs of her English language learners during English language development class. In particular, she is concerned with how to help them create a strong foundation for their learning of English. In her research, ... More »
Looking Beyond Themselves: Preparing Students to Become Invested Members of Their Community
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Abstract: As a sixth grade teacher, Pfitzner struggled to find a way to truly reach her students. She wanted to help her students find a deeper connection to what they were learning, allowing them to feel ownership of their knowledge. She developed a project based on community activism to help her students escape ... More »
Making Change Visible
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Abstract: This site documents the changes made in one fifteen-minute reading/writing activity in first grade over one entire school year. The site shows the revisions necessary to create an effective learning experience for all students and provides examples of the development of students' work. There are also ... More »
Multiple Measures of Student Achievement in an Interdisciplinary Unit on the Harlem Renaissance
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Abstract: This website shows the culmination of a 5th-grade class interdisciplinary project on the Harlem Renaissance: a student-created museum and exhibition. The site uses video comments of students, teachers, and parents work to provide a multiplicity of perspectives on the project, and offers links to Lyons ... More »
Pio Pico Researchers Participatory Action Research: From Classroom to Community, Transforming Teaching and Learning
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Abstract: Emily Wolk is a teacher of a group of students, aged 8-11 years old, called the Pio Pico Researchers. Together, since the group started in 1996, the group convinced the city of Santa Ana to install a signal light at one of the most dangerous intersections in the city, in the immediate vicinity of Pio ... More »
Playing with the Possible
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Abstract: This website documents a high school drama class in which students wrote and performed their own autobiographical monologues. The site is centered around video clips that illustrate how students used drama to develop, express, and debate understandings around contested issues in their lives. Pincus also ... More »
Setting Up a Successful Journalistic Learning Community
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Abstract: In this website, Wojcicki describes how participation in a journalistic learning community can motivate even the most recalcitrant student. The website includes sample copies of the newspaper, The Campanile and the magazine, Verde, which are examples of the kinds of student outcomes that can be achieved ... More »
The Development and Use of Representations in Teaching and Learning about Problem Solving: Exploring the Rule of 3 in Elementary School Mathematics
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Abstract: Tim Boerst has explored instructional approaches that foster the development of representational skill and routine use of multiple representations in problem solving. In particular he has used the 'Rule of 3' (a structure employed in calculus reform materials that highlights the use of numerical, algebraic, ... More »
The Mission Hill School (2001)
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Abstract: This website is built around a documentary film on the portfolio graduation process at the Mission Hill School. The documentary and the site depict both the development of the students' written work and presentations, and the efforts of the faculty to implement and refine their approach. Sections of ... More »
